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Nearly six percent of patients contract an infection during their time in a Swiss hospital, according to a new government-commissioned report.

The survey, published by the Federal health office on Tuesday, was undertaken between April and June 2017 and examined the cases of 13,000 hospital patients in 96 Swiss hospitals, around half of the country's total hospitals.

It revealed that 5.9 percent of patients contract an infection in hospital, on a par with the European average as based on 2011-12 data.

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